Launch of the New Miniscope.org
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Welcome to the New Miniscope.org
After a long period of development and iteration, we are excited to launch the new Miniscope community and documentation platform. This site is intended to serve as a central hub for open-source Miniscope tools, documentation, guides, workshops, and community discussion. Beyond hosting documentation, the broader goal is to support a growing and sustainable community around open-source neural recording technologies. The platform is built heavily around semantic organization and structured data using the MediaWiki ecosystem. In particular, this site builds upon several custom extensions and infrastructure projects we have been developing internally, including:
- Labki — a pre-configured mediawiki framework for building structured organizational, knowledge, and collaboration platforms
- SemanticSchemas — a semantic data modeling extension for MediaWiki
- MWAssistant — tooling intended to support AI-assisted interaction with MediaWiki content and workflows
Goals of the Platform
The primary goals of this platform are:
- Provide centralized and maintainable documentation for Miniscope-related tools
- Improve discoverability of guides, hardware, software, and experimental workflows
- Support workshops, training, and dissemination efforts
- Build a stronger and more connected open-source community
- Enable structured collaboration and long-term maintainability
This platform is also being developed alongside infrastructure that bridges repositories, documentation, semantic metadata, and development workflows. Over time, we hope this will substantially improve how open-source scientific hardware and software projects are documented, maintained, and shared.
Community Accounts
We strongly encourage community members to create accounts and participate.
Registered users will be able to:
- Participate in discussions and forums
- Build community profiles
- Track projects and workshops
- Help improve and expand shared resources
Discussion & Feedback
This is an active and evolving platform. There will certainly be rough edges and areas that need improvement.
We welcome feedback, suggestions, bug reports, and contributions from the community.